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Saturday, May 4, 2013

Amnesty Bill is a Massive Multi-Million Dollar Fraud

By Alan
Caruba

Native-born
and naturalized Americans who are currently seeking work are already competing
with illegal immigrants—a term that the Associated Press says it will no longer
use—or standing in line behind them as they sign up for all manner of welfare
benefits. The official estimate of the number of illegal aliens—oops,
undocumented aliens—in the nation is estimated to be eleven million, but if the
“Gang of Eight” amnesty bill becomes law, it will act as a magnet to attract
millions more.

As Roy
Beck, the founder and president of NumbersUSA, points out, “If Congress passes
the Senate Gang of Eight bill, it would be like re-creating ALL of the Top 20
cities in the United States, filling them entirely with foreign citizens and
giving them lifetime work permits to compete with America’s struggling
workers—in just ten years’ time.”

NumbersUSA
analysts spent two weeks reading the 844-page bill, concluding that 33 million
lifetime work permits would be given to foreign citizens in the first decade if
the bill passes. A revised bill has 867 pages and, according to a Daily Caller
article, “contains 999 references to waivers, exemptions, and political
discretion”, more even than Obamacare.

That’s a
lot of competition for jobs and it will hit those graduating from high school
and college the hardest. Right now, the youth unemployment rate for 18-29 year
olds is 11.7% and, among them, the African-American cohort’s rate it 20.1% and
Hispanics’ rate is 12.6%. An additional 1.7 million young adults are not
counted as “unemployed” because they are not in the labor force, meaning that
they have given up looking for work due to lack of jobs. Do we really want to
add millions of formerly illegal immigrants to the work force at this time?

The
report, by Ronald Mortensen, a Fellow at the Center for Immigration Studies,
shows that the token penalties, when they do exist, are not commensurate with
the employment-related felonies committed by the majority of illegal aliens,
nor are they commensurate with the benefits received by illegal aliens.

Just as
unfortunate is the fact that millions of victims of these crimes are ignored
while the amnestied illegals are rewarded and even benefit from the so-called
penalties, as the monies actually go into a fund that provides services to the
very people who paid the "penalties".

“Illegal aliens will be rewarded for breaking laws for which American citizens
are routinely punished," said Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the
Center for Immigration Studies. "For example, an American citizen would
face a maximum penalty of ten years in prison and fines of up to $250,000 for
using a fraudulent Social Security card, but under this bill the illegal alien
would face a $1,000 penalty covering all his many offenses, a penalty which in
many cases will be waived. Then, they would be issued a new Social Security
number without any past bad credit or arrest records.”

Dr. Mortensen discovered the following amnesties for illegal aliens and their
employers:

Amnesty
for the estimated 75 percent of illegal aliens committing Social Security
fraud.

Amnesty
from returning to home countries for 10 years before adjusting status.

Amnesty
for illegal aliens committing Identity theft.

Amnesty
for illegal aliens by officially authorizing them to continue committing
identity theft by using fraudulently obtained Social Security numbers belonging
to American citizens.

Amnesty
for illegal aliens who have committed perjury on I-9 forms.

De-Facto
amnesty from the token $1,000 penalty, since it effectively pre-pays services
provided to illegal aliens.

Amnesty
from existing exclusion, deportation, and removal orders:

While
illegal aliens would be granted amnesty for crimes they have committed,
government employees who discover Social Security fraud, identity theft, or
perjury on I-9 forms while reviewing applications for provisional status
would be prohibited from notifying victims, law enforcement, etc. with a threat
of a $10,000 penalty. This is 10 times more than the $1,000 penalty paid by an
illegal alien who has committed felony identity theft.

Amnesty
for employers found to have employed illegal aliens or who are currently
employing illegal aliens. Moreover, employers may continue to employ illegal
aliens, accept fraudulent Social Security numbers, and renew falsified I-9
forms for those who apply for provisional status.

Amnesty
for employers who did not withhold and/or submit payroll taxes for individuals
illegally in the United States.

Amnesty
for employers who facilitated Social Security fraud and identity theft by
providing or accepting false Social Security numbers.

While
employers would be held harmless, government employees who find that employers
violated the law while reviewing applications for temporary status would be
prohibited from notifying the appropriate law enforcement authorities. If
government employees do report tax or labor violations, they could face a fine
of $10,000.

Thanks to
the passage of Obamacare, the amnesty bill would increase the cost of the
nationalized health care system. Betsy McCaughey, the lieutenant governor of
New York from 1995 to 1998, in an April 29 letter in The Wall Street Journal, warned
that “One looming cost is health care. Under the Obama health law, starting
January 1, 2014 legal immigrants will be eligible for subsidized private health
plans on the exchanges as soon as they arrive in the U.S.”

“The
Senate Gang of Eight’s proposed bill will add $100 billion to the cost of Obamacare’s
subsidies over the next decade by doubling the number of legal immigrants
entering the country with green cards.” Ms. McCaughey noted that, in 2012,
484,072 immigrants entered that way. “The Gang of Eight plan will push it to
about one million. About half of those green card holders will be eligible for
the maximum assistance with premiums, subsidies and copays, totaling $9,000 per
person, and more than 80% will qualify for at least some taxpayer-funded
Obamacare subsidy.”

Little
known or reported is the fact that the Schumer-Rubio bill includes two “slush
funds” amounting to $150 million that would be used to fund groups like La Raza
and the American Immigration Lawyers Association with taxpayer money.

The
prevailing wisdom is that the amnesty bill will create more Democrat than
Republican voters and that is precisely its purpose. Its victims will be every
native-born and naturalized citizen paying taxes and trying to cope with a
healthcare system that will be on life-support soon enough.

The
proposed bill is a massive multi-million fraud. If it passes and is signed into
law, the further destruction of America will be accelerated.

About Me

I am and have been for a long time a writer by profession. I have several books to my credit and my daily column, "Warning Signs", is disseminated on many Internet news and opinion websites, as well as blogs. In addition, I am a longtime book reviewer and have a blog offering a monthly report on new fiction and non-fiction.